National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee

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Ginny Ryan: The Keeper of the Flame

A third grade assignment to tell the story of someone else’s life was all it took to hook Ginny Ryan on reporting. At Cardinal Mooney High School and at Buffalo State College, she wrote for the...

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News & Events

National Women’s Hall of Fame appoints Executive Director

National Women’s Hall of Fame appoints Executive Director in advance of 2021 Induction The National Women’s Hall of Fame is pleased to announce Jennifer Gabriel as Executive Director. This successful hire concludes the Hall’s six-month national search for this...

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The Board and staff at the NWHF are saddened to announce that 2011 Inductee Helen Murry Free has passed away at the age of 98. She was a pioneering chemist who worked alongside her husband to revolutionize diagnostic testing in the laboratory and at home. Together,...

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened and heartbroken about the passing of 1996 NWHF Inductee, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Holladay founded and established The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Opened in 1987, the museum promotes a greater awareness...

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